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Old 03-04-2004   #6
Alex From San Diego
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I use two things when I am looking for stocks.
First off I am a swingtrader.

I use a piece of software called WizeTrade and Wize Finder
It is basically a piece of oftware that is based on green and red lights.
Green lights indicating buying pressure and red lights indicating selling pressure. It is a little more complicated than that but that is the basis behind it.

I use Wisefinder to pull stocks that meet my specific parameters that I am looking for like gap ups and gap downs from both the previous close and the following opens. depending if I am going long or shorting, I am looking for 2% - 5% in either direction.

I also look for average volume. I never trade with a stock for the long position that has an average volume of less than 500,000 shares and never go short on a stock with a average volume of less than 800,000 shares. This is for obvious reasons.

Once I have my pool of stocks, I do my own charting and go from there.
there is quite a bit more to my method or should I say madness but overall I do fairly well.
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